Air-born baby's flying start comes to end
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Special delivery: Pawan Deep Kaur.
Cathay Pacific says it will not be giving a lifetime of free air travel to a baby born on one of its flights this week.
Pawan Deep Kaur entered the world six weeks early while his mother was on a flight between Hong Kong and Adelaide.
The plane was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Darwin.
There's been speculation since the birth that it is protocol for babies born during a flight to be given free air travel with the company.
But David Bell from Cathay Pacific says that is an old wives' tale.
"In the early days of flying, I think there were a couple of American airlines that did in fact give kids that were born on their flights free life passes but nowadays, unfortunately, it's totally impractical with just the high volume of travel and the availability of seats," he said.
